British Quote by John Cleese

“One thing I understood from the beginning is that the press almost completely tunes out abstractions. They won’t write about ideas without larger-than-life personalities…

— Eric S. Raymond

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in…

— Andrew O'Hagan

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and…

— Will Self

There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if…

— Linus Roache

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

— Hilary Mantel

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

— Steven Berkoff

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which…

— Victoria Laurie

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

— Simon Beaufoy

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual…

— Jerry Saltz

“Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be…

— Veronika Carnaby

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

— John Oliver